Advanced medical statistics /

Preface p. v
About the Editors p. ix
Section 1. Statistical Methods in Biomedical Research p. 1
Chapter 1. History of Statistical Thinking in Medicine Tar Timothy Chen p. 3
Chapter 2. Evaluation of Diagnostic Test's Accuracy in the Presence of Verification Bias Xiao-Hua Zhou p. 21
Chapter 3. Statistical Methods for Dependent Data Feng Chen p. 45
Chapter 4. Statistics used in Quality Control, Quality Assurance, and Quality Improvement in Radiological Studies Ying Lu and Shoujun Zhao p. 101
Chapter 5. Cost-Effectiveness Analysis and Evidence-Based Medicine Jianli Li p. 157
Chapter 6. Quality of Life: Issues Concerning Assessment and Analysis Ji-Qian Fang and Yuantao Hao p. 195
Chapter 7. Meta-Analysis Xuyu Zhuo and Ji-Qian Fang and Chuanhua Yu and Zongli Xu and Ying Lu p. 233
Chapter 8. Describing Data, Variability and Over-Dispersion in Medical Research Ming Tan p. 319
Chapter 9. Time Series Analysis And Its Applications in Medical Sciences Jinxi Zhang and Yingdong Zheng and Dejian Lai p. 333
Chapter 10. Applications of Statistical Methods in Medical Imaging Jesse S. Jin p. 379
Section 2. Statistical Methods in Pharmaceutical Research p. 407
Chapter 11. Statistics in Pharmacology and Pre-Clinical Studies Tze Leung Lai and Mei-Chiung Shih and Guangrui Zhu p. 409
Chapter 12. Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research Shein-Chung Chow and Annpey Pong p. 443
Chapter 13. Statistics in Toxicology James J. Chen p. 495
Chapter 14. Some Statistical Issues of Relevence to Confirmatory Trials George Y. H. Chi and Kun Jin and Gang Chen and Lu Cui p. 523
Section 3. Statistical Methods in Epidemiology p. 581
Chapter 15. Statistics in Genetics Zhaohai Li and Minyu Xie p. 583
Chapter 16. Does-Response Modeling in Health Risk Assessment Yiliang Zhu p. 617
Chapter 17. Statistical Models and Methods in Infectious Diseases Hulin Wu and Shoujun Zhao p. 645
Chapter 18. Special Models for Sampling Survey Sujuan Gao p. 685
Chapter 19. The Use of Capture-Recapture Methodology in Epidemiological Surveillance Anne Chao and H-C. Yang and P. S. F. Yip p. 711
Chapter 20. Statistical Methods in the Effect Evaluation of Mass Screening for Diseases Qing Liu p. 741
Chapter 21. Causal Inference Zhi Geng p. 777
Section 4. Advanced Statistical Theory and Methods p. 813
Chapter 22. Survival Analysis Danyu Lin p. 815
Chapter 23. Regression Models for the Analysis of Longitudinal Data Colin Wu and Kai F. Yu p. 837
Chapter 24. Local Modeling: Density Estimation and Nonparametric Regression Jianqing Fan and Runze Li p. 885
Chapter 25. Bayesian Methods Minghui Chen and Keying Ye p. 933
Chapter 26. Stochastic Process and Their Applications in Medical Science Caixia Li and Ji-Qian Fang p. 991
Chapter 27. Tree-Based Methods Heping Zhang p. 1033
Chapter 28. Maximum Likelihood Estimation From Incomplete Data via EM-Type Algorithms Chuanhai Liu p. 1051
Chapter 29. Introduction to Artificial Neural Networks Jielai Xia and Jiang Hongwei and Tang Qiyi p. 1073
Index p. 1091